Have you ever thought about buying your /”>children insurance? My parents bought a policy for me when I was a toddler, and presented it to me when I turned 25. It had a cash value of a little over $8,000, which I stupidly cashed in and used to make credit card payments, only to continue running up the accounts until Chris and I ended up in bankruptcy.
I hadn’t thought about that insurance policy in years, but then today I was catching up on my blog RSS feeds and read a post on Dooce about her latest batch of hate mail. Someone bitched at her for shilling children’s life insurance, as if she has any control at all over what Google Ads thinks is an important keyword to attach an ad too.
I don’t know Heather, I was too chicken to introduce myself to her at BlogHer last year, even though I was sitting less than two feet away from her at the Mommybloggers session, but it really bugs me that people feel the need to take time out of their day to email someone they don’t even know and say hurtful things to them. Unless a person is being personally attacked, I can’t see any reason for going to that kind of trouble.
It’s the same way I feel about people who call TV stations to protest the airing of TV shows that they feel are “offensive”- here’s an idea, CHANGE THE CHANNEL. Don’t think your kids should read a certain book? Don’t let them read it, but don’t show up at school board meetings ranting about how the book should be banned so that no one else can read it either. Don’t like what a blogger is writing about? DON’T READ THEIR BLOG. That’s all I’m going to say about that, because I’m getting aggravated just writing this.
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I agree with you completely. Don’t watch the show, don’t read the book, don’t read the blog. And, anyway, who has time to write emails like that? And, what kind of person wants to be nasty like that? C’mon, people!
You’re absolutely right. We should read the blogs we like and not find ones that we can criticise.
Excellent points my dear!
BTW, thank you for the Rockin’ Award! I came over ages ago and meant to commetn and say thank you — I completely forgot after the funeral.
It’s never made sense to me how people waste time chastising other bloggers when the time we have is precious and flies quickly.If people like that devoted the same time to empowering their own lives there wouldn’t be much room for wasted time being negative and hateful.
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Alison- I don’t know what it is either. All I know is, people can write whatever they want on their blogs, it’s their personal space! My god, when Heather wrote about how they had to let Leta scream herself to sleep to break her of the habit of waking up every two hours wanting to nurse, because she wasn’t getting enough sleep and neither were Heather and Jon, Heather got the most horrible email and comments from people saying she didn’t love Leta, she was cruel to Leta, and one person actually threatened to call Child Services on her! It is mind-boggling.
I know where you are coming from, I had an awful comment on my Vox Blog (where I do most of my paid blogging) about the paid blogging I do. They said that I was pretending to be excited about a product, and it was a total act, that I was lying. Of course, I deleted it. But I posted a response addressing it.
Twitter: Table4Five
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Ruthie- I didn’t know you could use a Vox blog for PPP! Hmmm…..
I’m sure that like me, when you write a post about a product, even if it’s something you’ve never used before, you find something about it that is interesting or useful, right? That’s not lying, that’s being creative. What we do is no different from an advertising copywriter coming up with a new ad for deoderant or gum or toothpaste or whatever. I’m sorry that other people can’t see it that way!